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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #60 on: July 15, 2010, 01:12:44 PM »
Rammers and sit and spinners only really need 2 motors, i want to see variety and creativity.. it might seem like "oh man i got 1 less Motor so now i can't make my generic HS" but it should be more "OK i got 1 less motor then this other guy, he could build a generic HS so I'm going to build something with heavily armored arms to stop his spinner and my weapon in the middle to go to town on his exposed motor".
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #61 on: July 15, 2010, 02:08:19 PM »
interesting idea there.
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #62 on: July 15, 2010, 07:08:36 PM »
It's quite a good idea, I think, but I can forsee a problem with the random drawing. If a person is drawn 2 HP Z-Teks, and mini wheels, the wheels won't actually touch the ground, hence there will be no movement.
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #63 on: July 15, 2010, 07:22:11 PM »
no mini wheels then :P thanks for reminding me :)
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #64 on: July 15, 2010, 10:32:32 PM »
If it says we can use 8 razor tips, can we use anything besides that? Or can we use less than that? I like the idea, but certain parts need to be omitted (like Mini Wheels, etc.)
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #65 on: July 16, 2010, 12:13:33 AM »
there will be 4 draws for each person.. Weapons, Motors, Wheels, Extras and whatever they roll they need to use that part and nothing else in that category with the exact same number.
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #66 on: July 16, 2010, 02:44:26 AM »
It's quite a good idea, I think, but I can forsee a problem with the random drawing. If a person is drawn 2 HP Z-Teks, and mini wheels, the wheels won't actually touch the ground, hence there will be no movement.

Angle the motors then.
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #67 on: July 16, 2010, 10:31:10 AM »
(Stock scares me)

bah it only scares you becasue VS's arnt as good :P

Nah. Realism. I love the realistic rule.

I can see a problem with the weapons match-ups too. I'd much prefer an iron, 2 razor tips and 2 maces to 2 mower blades and 4 razors. But maybe this'll encourage the use of components like mower blades in a different context, like armour or something (I dunno XD).
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #68 on: July 16, 2010, 10:42:20 AM »
Am I allowed to add Chocolate and Tabasco Sauce to my entry?  = P



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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #69 on: July 21, 2010, 12:23:08 PM »
BUMP: When can we start discussions again?
I've go too many tourney ideas in my head.
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #70 on: July 21, 2010, 12:39:47 PM »
BUMP: When can we start discussions again?
I've go too many tourney ideas in my head.

As soon as you don't have too many tourney ideas in your head (and about half the running/opened for signups tournaments finish)

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #71 on: July 21, 2010, 01:01:52 PM »
Where can I post my ideas?
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #72 on: July 21, 2010, 02:08:08 PM »
Try here.
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #73 on: July 21, 2010, 02:24:40 PM »
I opened discussion so you can post there.......BUT, it will be A LONG time before signups will open again.....unless there is real progress in the started tournaments.

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #74 on: July 26, 2010, 06:28:31 PM »
I'v finally remembered to come back and here is a thread that I like.
As a good portion of you know that i'v either tried (which failed),  pm or hinted at the fact that I want to try or at least see a hover craft tournament. The problem is my com does not like recording soft ware it crashes even now that i'v fixed its hard ware issues. It works fine other than that so the place is here who wants to help me here ( when you can of course)?

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #75 on: August 10, 2010, 10:07:31 AM »
Is anyone entering replica wars 2? I got a replica of one of my ants ready.

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #76 on: August 10, 2010, 10:17:20 AM »
please wait for the thread to be opened

the thread will be opened when TTT awards conclude

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #77 on: August 24, 2010, 06:37:37 PM »
Will need help with AIing for when my tournament is in signups because my method crashs my game when I try to open the team

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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #78 on: August 25, 2010, 07:23:50 PM »
Then I think you need to learn.
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Re: General Tournament Discussion
« Reply #79 on: September 18, 2010, 04:25:21 PM »
Sorry for the bump, I'm just not entirely sure where else to post this. If you're wanting to film RA2 videos, but don't have the cash to buy FRAPS, I've stumbled across an excellent alternative, WeGame. It records at either 15, 20, 25 or 30 FPS at 640x480 pixels, half-size or full screen [not sure what the resolution or quality's like with them] and you can choose whether to record the sound with it or not. And it's completely free.

http://www.wegame.com/download/
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